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Ofosu, Seeberg and Wahman(2024): Messages matter: How voter education campaigns affect citizens’ willingness to vote for women

This replication folder contains the following files: 

A. Data
 
1. mm_conjoint_data.csv : original conjoint survey data from respondents collected from Malawi as described in paper. This is linked with respondent data to create ms_data in the analysis code
2. mm_respondent_data.csv : demographic and opinion data of respondents


B. Code files

3. ofosu_seeberg_wahman_replicationfiles_codebook.Rmd:  codes for the creation of data codebook
4. ofosu_seeberg_wahman_codes.Rmd: codes for replicating all the results in the main paper and the appendix. We incorporated our replication code into our writing.  

5. an_cj_pop_weight.R: code for replicating Appendix Table C.5  using an output data "master_ps.csv" from main replication file. The output file, master_ps.csv is added to the replication document for convenience, but it is also generated by the replication file automatically.


C. Documents

6. ofosu_seeberg_wahman_replicationfiles_codebook.pdf: Output of ofosu_seeberg_wahman_replicationfiles_codebook.Rmd
7. ofosu_seeberg_wahman_codes.pdf: output of  ofosu_seeberg_wahman_codes.Rmd
8. bib_women_project.bib : bibliography  
9. tab_pamce.tex: output of "an_cj_pop_weight.R"

D. Other files used by ofosu_seeberg_wahman_codes.Rmd to create paper

10. campaigntype2.pdf
11. case_selection.jpg: the case selection plot  (Figure 3) is generated by running the code in fig3_malawi_case_selection.do on the Varieties of Democracy dataset  "V-Dem-CY-Full+Others-v12.dta" 
12. control.png
13. discrimination.png
14. model.pdf
15. progress.png
16. sample_treatment.pdf